Angela Smith: The commencement date for tenancy deposit protection will be 6 April 2007.
	The summary of responses to the consultation on the tenancy deposit protection secondary legislation was published on 23 June 2006. The consultation sought views on the information requirements to be placed on landlords and the handling of deposits at the beginning and end of the tenancy.
	Alongside the publication of the summary of responses, the Government announced that the commencement date of 1 October 2006 was under review.
	Responses to the consultation raised concerns about joint authorisation for deposit repayment where either landlord or tenant cannot contact the other party to obtain agreement. This includes situations where there are rent arrears and a tenancy has been abandoned.
	Further consideration has now been given to stakeholders' concerns expressed in the consultative process and the Government recognise that it would be beneficial to both landlords and tenants to enable single claims to be made on the deposit in certain circumstances. We therefore intend to bring to the House, proposals to achieve this.
	To ensure all provisions are in place and stakeholders have had the opportunity to prepare for the introduction of tenancy deposit protection, the commencement date has been moved from 1 October 2006 to 6 April 2007, which is a common commencement date.

Ian Pearson: Data reported by Energy Conservation Authorities in England under the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 in the period 1 April 1996 to 31 March 2005 has been placed in the Libraries of both Houses. These data have also been published on the Department for Food and Rural Affairs website at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/energy/heca 95/index.htm. Authorities have reported an overall improvement in domestic energy efficiency of 16.7 per cent. as measured against a 1996 baseline.

Patricia Hewitt: On 12 June 2006, official report, columns 47-48WS I updated the House on Herceptin, following the announcement of its licence for early breast cancer and the publication of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) draft recommendations on its use. In that written statement, I promised to update the House on progress with introducing HER2 testing arrangements across the country. This statement provides that update.
	In October 2005 Professor Mike Richards, the national cancer director, wrote to all cancer networks to identify the current level of HER2 testing and to inform them that they would need to put arrangements in place to ensure that patients who may benefit from Herceptin for early breast cancer could be identified.
	This exercise confirmed that access to HER2 testing facilities was patchy and few networks were testing all women with early breast cancer to determine their HER2 status. This was unsurprising given that Herceptin was not then licensed for early breast cancer.
	In March 2006 the national cancer director sought a progress report from cancer networks. This has shown that there has been a significant improvement in the number of cancer networks providing HER2 testing for all women diagnosed with early breast cancer.
	Some 28 out of 34 cancer networks are now reporting that they HER2 test all women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Of the remaining six:
	Two (Leicester, Northampton and Rutland and Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire) report that they will be testing all these women by July/August 2006; and
	four (Derby and Burton, Mount Vernon Peninsula and Thames Valley) report that they will be testing all these women by September /October 2006.

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